Tragedy struck minutes after a teenage girl in Scotland applied hair coloring on herself.

Tabatha McCourt, 17, was at her best friend's house in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, when the incident happened.

According to friend Heather Goodhall, 20 minutes after applying the dye, Tabatha got upset and began pulling the foils out of her hair in agony and vomiting before collapsing.

"Tabatha was always dyeing her hair different colours," Heather told the Daily Mail, hinting that it was the first time her friend had shown such a reaction.

Speaking to the Scottish Daily Record, Heather said Tabatha threw a violent fit and she had to call her mother for help.

"She started shouting, 'No, no', and my mum's boyfriend held her and tried to calm her down... It was really scary. Her eyes started going all funny and then she just started being sick. It was really frightening."

"She looked just like a rag doll - limp, just lying there. We phoned for the ambulance and when they arrived they told us to get out of the living room so I couldn't see what was happening. Next thing we knew she was taken out of the house and into the ambulance."

Tabatha was taken to Monklands General Hospital, where she died.

Yahoo News reported Tabatha's grandfather John Bell, 59, said she had no health problems and the hair dye couldn't be ruled out for playing a part in her death.

Medics are investigating the possibility that Tabatha had a rare allergic reaction to the dye, according to Daily Mail.

In 2001, pathologists concluded that Narinder Devi, from Birmingham, who also died after applying hair dye, suffered a severe anaphylactic shock which was "most likely" caused by the hair dye.